Exhibition is Saturday, May 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theater; must sign up in advance
The Yavapai College Film & Media Arts Program will be held this coming Saturday, May 14 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre in Sedona. It is located at 2030 Highway 89A, Sedona, Arizaona. Admission is free but you must reserve a seat in advance. Please contact Helen Stephenson, at Helen.Stephenson@yc.edu, for tickets. Registration is now open at: www.yc.edu.
The following is the announcement put out by the College about the program.
The ingredients of good filmmaking, a sneak peek at scripts-in-the-making and a demonstration of the medium’s enormous historical and informative power will all be on display when the Yavapai College Film & Media Arts Program presents its FMA Student Film and Screenplay Exhibition, Saturday, May 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theater, 2030 Highway 89A, Sedona, AZ. Admission is free.
The FMA Student Exhibition will begin by offering film buffs a chance to watch the script development process. Student screenwriters bring their recent pages out for an open “table read.” The event, which features actors performing selected student scenes aloud, lets instructor Jeff Wood’s FMA screenwriters hear and evaluate dialogue and storytelling as they hone their scripts for the camera.
The exhibition then moves to the other side of the camera, as Film & Media Arts Production students showcase their films from the previous year. FMA instructor Dave Lehleitner supervised production on a broad slate of styles, including comedies, dramas and films about personal discoveries and growth.
No filmmaking exhibition would be complete without a demonstration of the medium’s capacity to educate and inspire. That’s why YC’s FMA program will unveil two of its Service Learning documentary film projects:
· A client-based video, for the Friends of the Verde River Greenway, takes a Native American perspective on the history and habitats of the Verde River, including the local nonprofit’s efforts to protect it.
· Clips from a short historical documentary on Miss Lassie Lou Ahern, one of only 12 silent films stars living today.
The programs demonstrate the variety of training available through YC’s Film and Media Arts Program. Based at the College’s Verde Valley Campus with classes taught in-person and on-line the FMA program will offer certificate training in Film Production, Screenwriting and their newest program, Animation, this fall.
The exhibition is free, but only a limited number of seats are available.